What they Say:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20669, 6 March 1937, Page 12 (Supplement)

What they Say:

Readers are Invited to contribute to this column, sayings of notable people of any age. that have impressed them: “The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. —George Eliot. “The heaviest ear of corn is the one which lowliest hangs its head”— Gaelic Proverb. “It is one thing to see your road; another to cut it”—George Eliot. ‘‘The fewer desires, the more peace.” —Thomas Wilson. “Failures are with heroic minds the stepping-stones to success” Haliburton. “Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.” —Milton. “There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness: a false virtue, which is hypocrisy; and a false wisdom, which is prudery.”— Bruy ere. “It should seem that ihdolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivances to be a knave”— Shenstone. “He who could look time in the face without illusion and without fear should associate each year as it passes with new developments of his nature; with duties accomplished,, with work performed”—Sir Walter Raleigh. “Do good with what thou hast; or tt will do thee no good. Seek not to be rich but happy. The one lies in bags, the other in content; which wealth can never give.”—William Penn. “O do not pray for eas > lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle; but you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God—Phillip Brooks. “1 held it more humane more heavenly—first By winning words to conquer willing hearts And make persuasion do the work of fear.” —Milton.